Fifteen views illustrative of a tour to Hafod in Cardiganshire
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Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828.
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Fifteen views illustrative of a tour to Hafod in Cardiganshire
Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828.
Part of Stedman Thomas Manuscripts
Miscellaneous notes dealing mainly with Welsh families, including Johnes of Hafod, etc.
Part of Stedman Thomas Manuscripts
Notes on Cardiganshire and other pedigrees, particularly Johnes of Hafod and Dolaucothi.
Part of Brith Gof Archive,
Correspondence and papers relating to the Hafod project, including photographs and slides, project booklets, publicity and information material, scenographic and prop sketches and designs, performance outline and details, production scripts and texts, press releases, research and preparatory material, examples of information packs, draft performance [scores], devising notes, a plan of Hafod, work plans, joiner photographs, copies of a marketing pack, design copies of set [banners], budgets, travel arrangements, venue plans, reviews, tour memorabilia, general production notes and administrative papers.
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The file contains descriptions of paintings which may have originated from Hafod mansion, Cardiganshire, with a view to their valuation and sale.
Tour in Wales and a part of Monmouthshire
Manuscript journal of a tour of south and west Wales, as well as parts of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, 4 June-2 October 1805 (ff. 3-32 verso passim), also including several contemporary illustrations and later pasted-in engravings.
The writer is unknown but appears to be female and was travelling in the company of her 'Papa' and several other presumed relatives. Beginning in Gloucester (ff. 3-4), the journal then recounts a journey down the River Wye from Ross-on-Wye to Chepstow (ff. 7-8, 10-11 verso) and an extended stay at Swansea, 16 June-30 July (ff. 13-14, 16-17, 19, 21-22), before proceeding to Pembrokeshire (ff. 22 verso-23, 26-28 verso), Aberystwyth (ff. 29-31 verso) and Dolgellau (ff. 32 recto-verso), where the narrative ends abruptly, mid-sentence. The volume includes descriptions of Gloucester Cathedral (ff. 3-4), Margam Park (ff. 12-13), the Brownslade estate, [Castlemartin] (ff. 26-27 verso), St Govan's Head (ff. 26 verso-27 verso), the lower River Teifi (ff. 28-29), Devil's Bridge (ff. 29 verso-31) and the house at Hafod, Cardiganshire (f. 31 recto-verso). The illustrations are of pen and wash in a naïve style and comprise eight full page drawings (ff. 2, 6, 9, 15, 18, 20, 24, 25) and three text illustrations (ff. 8, 14, 17) all depicting views along the route. Conversely the fifteen engravings, [1831]-[1845], pasted into the volume depict various views in England, Wales and India and are, with a single exception, unrelated to the text (inside front cover, ff. 1 verso, 2 verso, 33-44 (rectos only)).